On January 1st, 3586, Julian Tifflor, now elected as First Terran, creates the League of the Free Terrans (LFT). Mutoghmann Scerp tells Rhodan that a new organization has been created, with the goal of being a successor to the GAVOK.

Payne Hamiller receives a request from a colleague to help him investigate the recent discovery of a pre-Minoan civilization. The scientists discover tablets mentioning the name Pan-Thau-Ra. Nothing else can be found about this name except that it is supposed to bring disaster.

A team of three mutants is actively tracking Margor. They manage to locate the base of the renegade mutant but the criminal has already left.